Romney's Sartorial Smackdown

In the months preceding election season, politicians take part in a storied ritual we like to call Image Adjustment. This can mean voting differently to appeal to wider demographics; visiting foreign countries, or Iowa; distancing themselves from their extremist friends; and now, apparently, wearing trendier pants. The L.A. Times reports that Mitt Romney was recently seen "sporting skinny Gap jeans bought for him by his wife" (That he was doing this at NASCAR in Daytona was a bit of miscalculation of venue.)

Is he trying to distance himself from Obama, who famously donned a pair of dad jeans a couple of years ago? And can it cancel out his Mormonism, a fact that makes a lot of people rather uncomfortable? Will Obama respond by throwing on a tie bar? God, this election is so exciting and it HASN’T EVEN BEGUN!

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